Christopher M. Sullivan

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher M. Sullivan is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher M. Sullivan has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Plant Science, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christopher M. Sullivan's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (12 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (11 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (4 papers). Christopher M. Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (12 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (11 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (4 papers). Christopher M. Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Christopher M. Sullivan's co-authors include James C. Carrington, Noah Fahlgren, Scott A. Givan, Elisabeth J. Chapman, Kristin D. Kasschau, Jason S. Cumbie, Miya D. Howell, Taiowa A. Montgomery, Sarah R. Grant and Atsushi Takeda and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher M. Sullivan

44 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

High-Throughput Sequencing of Arabidopsis microRNAs: Evidence for Frequent Birth and Death of MIRNA Genes

2007 977 citations Noah Fahlgren, Miya D. Howell et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher M. Sullivan United States	27	3.9k	2.7k	314	278	203	44	5.0k
Stefan R. Henz Germany	19	3.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	62 0.2×	47 0.2×	180 0.9×	26	4.5k
Kenji K. Kojima Japan	26	2.0k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	92 0.3×	83 0.3×	291 1.4×	77	3.8k
Michael Regulski United States	24	987 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	154 0.5×	53 0.2×	211 1.0×	34	2.4k
Daniel Zilberman United States	40	9.0k 2.3×	7.0k 2.7×	273 0.9×	266 1.0×	252 1.2×	46	11.7k
Todd P. Michael United States	48	4.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.5×	67 0.2×	59 0.2×	584 2.9×	111	6.4k
Jan U. Lohmann Germany	43	8.9k 2.3×	8.3k 3.1×	81 0.3×	59 0.2×	130 0.6×	86	10.7k
M. Kathryn Barton United States	29	6.3k 1.6×	6.0k 2.3×	155 0.5×	21 0.1×	41 0.2×	38	7.4k
Julian M. Hibberd United Kingdom	45	4.8k 1.2×	5.3k 2.0×	29 0.1×	34 0.1×	328 1.6×	120	7.9k
Basten L. Snoek Netherlands	36	1.9k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	107 0.3×	25 0.1×	520 2.6×	104	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher M. Sullivan

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Appel, Cara L., et al.. (2025). Developing custom computer vision models with Njobvu‐AI: A collaborative, user‐friendly platform for ecological research. Ecological Applications. 35(6). e70096–e70096. 1 indexed citations

Lesmeister, Damon B., et al.. (2023). PNW-Cnet v4: Automated species identification for passive acoustic monitoring. SoftwareX. 23. 101473–101473. 9 indexed citations

Schmid, Moritz S., et al.. (2023). Edge computing at sea: high-throughput classification of in-situ plankton imagery for adaptive sampling. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 8 indexed citations

Sullivan, Christopher M., et al.. (2021). A cost‐effective maize ear phenotyping platform enables rapid categorization and quantification of kernels. The Plant Journal. 106(2). 566–579. 26 indexed citations

Dasgupta, Subham, et al.. (2021). Phenotypically Anchored mRNA and miRNA Expression Profiling in Zebrafish Reveals Flame Retardant Chemical Toxicity Networks. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 663032–663032. 14 indexed citations

Afferden, Manfred van, et al.. (2021). Wastewater Treatment and Wood Production of Willow System in Cold Climate. Water. 13(12). 1630–1630. 5 indexed citations

Levi, Taal, et al.. (2018). Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 581–586. 45 indexed citations

Filichkin, Sergei A., Michael Hamilton, Palitha Dharmawardhana, et al.. (2018). Abiotic Stresses Modulate Landscape of Poplar Transcriptome via Alternative Splicing, Differential Intron Retention, and Isoform Ratio Switching. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 5–5. 97 indexed citations

Goodale, Britton C., Susan C. Tilton, Christopher M. Sullivan, et al.. (2015). Ligand-Specific Transcriptional Mechanisms Underlie Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Mediated Developmental Toxicity of Oxygenated PAHs. Toxicological Sciences. 147(2). 397–411. 58 indexed citations

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Putman, Tim, et al.. (2015). Application of a nanoflare probe specific to a latency associated transcript for isolation of KHV latently infected cells. Virus Research. 208. 129–135. 16 indexed citations

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Fahlgren, Noah, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Kristin D. Kasschau, et al.. (2013). Phytophthora Have Distinct Endogenous Small RNA Populations That Include Short Interfering and microRNAs. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e77181–e77181. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chi, Taiowa A. Montgomery, Sylvia E. J. Fischer, et al.. (2012). The Caenorhabditis elegans RDE-10/RDE-11 Complex Regulates RNAi by Promoting Secondary siRNA Amplification. Current Biology. 22(10). 881–890. 48 indexed citations

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Cuperus, Josh T., Alberto Carbonell, Noah Fahlgren, et al.. (2010). Unique functionality of 22-nt miRNAs in triggering RDR6-dependent siRNA biogenesis from target transcripts in Arabidopsis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 17(8). 997–1003. 344 indexed citations

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Fahlgren, Noah, Christopher M. Sullivan, Kristin D. Kasschau, et al.. (2009). Computational and analytical framework for small RNA profiling by high-throughput sequencing. RNA. 15(5). 992–1002. 101 indexed citations

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Montgomery, Taiowa A., Seong Jeon Yoo, Noah Fahlgren, et al.. (2008). AGO1-miR173 complex initiates phased siRNA formation in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(51). 20055–20062. 154 indexed citations

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Michael, Todd P., Todd C. Mockler, Ghislaı̀n Breton, et al.. (2008). Network Discovery Pipeline Elucidates Conserved Time-of-Day–Specific cis-Regulatory Modules. PLoS Genetics. 4(2). e14–e14. 420 indexed citations

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Kasschau, Kristin D., Noah Fahlgren, Elisabeth J. Chapman, et al.. (2007). Genome-Wide Profiling and Analysis of Arabidopsis siRNAs. PLoS Biology. 5(3). e57–e57. 409 indexed citations

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Givan, Scott A., Christopher M. Sullivan, & James C. Carrington. (2007). The Personal Sequence Database: a suite of tools to create and maintain web-accessible sequence databases. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 479–479. 2 indexed citations

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Fahlgren, Noah, Miya D. Howell, Kristin D. Kasschau, et al.. (2007). High-Throughput Sequencing of Arabidopsis microRNAs: Evidence for Frequent Birth and Death of MIRNA Genes. PLoS ONE. 2(2). e219–e219. 977 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sullivan, Christopher M., et al.. (1996). Separating the Effects of Alertness from the Effects of Encoding in a Pitch-Imagery Task. The Journal of General Psychology. 123(2). 105–114. 3 indexed citations

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